Pretend you’re eight years old for a second. Now pretend you just got a photo in the mail from your new buddy in Finland.
Fantastic, right? Best mail ever!
Now here’s the secret: it’s still that much fun to get photos from around the world. And it’s super easy thanks to Postcrossing: send a postcard to somebody, and somebody sends you a postcard back. Collect photos from 175 countries without blowing all your airline miles! You can even request pictures of specific things.
Since you’re sending pictures anyway, why not use your own? Slip your prints into postcard mailers and put the whole shebang in the mail. Get out and document your favorite things about the place you live, or the people you see every day. They sure won’t have anything that cool on the postcard rack at the drugstore.
If you missed being eight, you’ll be glad you became a postcrosser.
Postcrossing.com (Thx, Adam!)
Make Your Own Postcards — More ideas for turning your photos into postcards.
Photojojo Mailable Frames — Frame that photo before you send it!
The Postcrossing Gallery — See postcards other people have gotten.
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[...] Il sito Photojojo si propone come aggregatore di suggerimenti e consigli per gli amanti della fotografia, e pubblica una newsletter ed un feed RSS che sono molto interessanti per la quantità di idee che forniscono, alcune anche abbastanza particolari. Un suggerimento apparso in un post di qualche giorno fa propone lo scambio di foto-cartoline da tutto il mondo. Come? Il sito Postcrossing offre un servizio di mediazione tra persone distanti che intendono scambiarsi cartoline postali da collezionare. Perché non unire quindi le due cose scambiandosi foto anziché cartoline normali? A questo punto sarebbe possibile anche fare richieste specifiche chiedendo foto di luoghi particolari o con inquadrature diverse dalle solite. [...]
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